Unit details
EPR702 - Managing Teaching in Professional Experience
| Offered at: | (B, G, X) |
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| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| Offerings: | Trimester 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | J Loughlin |
| Prerequisite: | EPR701 |
| Corequisite: | Must be enrolled in course E760. |
| Incompatible with: | EPR705 |
| Contact hours: | This unit will be taught through intensive mode in Week One, Week Four, Week Eight and Week Eleven. This unit also involves 25 whole days of professional experience which will occur in a school setting. |
| Note: (i) Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications. (ii) This unit requires students to undertake professional experience placements organised by the Professional Experience Office.
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Content
This unit focuses on working effectively with learners both in small groups and as a whole group. Students will plan learning experiences accordingly to the needs of groups of children in early childhood settings or primary and secondary settings. Students will study different strategies to communicate effectively in classrooms and ensure safe, supportive and challenging learning environments. Students will be involved in filming their own teaching practice, reflecting on their practice and discussing their learning with colleagues in the school and university settings.
Assessment
Planning for learning 50% Students will plan a sequence of learning experiences for small and whole group, with a clear rationale, that will include a variety of learning activities and at least one form of assessment.
Reflection on teaching 50% Students will film a particular lesson/learning activity and then provide a critique of their rational, selection of teaching strategies and the learning environment created. Students will communicate with their colleagues on their growing understanding of their teaching and assessment repertoire.
Hurdle Requirement: Satisfactory completion of the required number of professional experience days.
Prescribed texts
Managing Teaching in Professional Experience: EPR702 (2011). Melbourne: Pearson
Deakin university, Complied by Andrea Gallant
Recommended texts
Arthur, L, Beecher, B, Death, E, Dockett, S & Farmer, S 2008 Planning in Early Childhood Settings, 4th Edn, Thomson, Southbank.
Unit Fee Information
| Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Student Contribution Rate*** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
| $706 | $565 | $565 | $1872 | $2394 |
* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.
